Month: February 2010

19

Feb

2010

BIG CAMERAS. . . BIG FILM

We will be giving a talk titled “Big Cameras. . . Big Film” for program night at the Fort Worth Camera Club 7:00pm Thursday March 4, 2010. The talk will include a slide show of our travels with Large Format and Ultra Large Format cameras and discussion of how we work and travel. We will also have one of our cameras setup for your inspection, plus several original photographs.

If you are interested in learning more about LF and ULF black and white film photography, we would like to invite you to join us. For more information and meeting location, click HERE to visit the FWCC web site.

Hope to see you there!

JB & Susan

08

Feb

2010

2010 ADVENTURES IN THE DARKROOM

Time to start processing the film from the last trip to Utah. We spent 30 days on the road and photographed 20 days. That kind of working schedule generates a lot of LF and ULF film. Now comes the time to head to the darkroom for a little developing. Should take about 30 days to finish all of the film. Then we have to catalog and file, then proof to see what we have. Soon we will have some new film to start looking at with an eye toward making prints.

All film will be processed in a scratch-mixed Pyro developer, in small batches, by hand in open trays. Typically a day of processing will consist of 3-4 batches, normally totaling no more 30 sheets. We never try to push and do too many, if you get really fatigued, it is easy to make mistakes. This film is the culmination of hours of traveling and heaving heavy cameras in deep snow and ice, we do not want to do anything foolish now.

Hopefully we will find a few keepers in this batch of film. Watch here for more information and maybe a few new photos on the web site.
JB & Susan